Lot Essay
The Daedalus Foundation will include this drawing in their forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings & Collages by Robert Motherwell.
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Details
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Robert Motherwell 1944' (lower right)
pen, India ink and brush and ink wash on paper
11 5/8 x 14½ in. (39.3 x 36.8 cm.)
Drawn in 1944
Untitled
signed and dated 'Robert Motherwell 1944' (lower right)
pen, India ink and brush and ink wash on paper
11 5/8 x 14½ in. (39.3 x 36.8 cm.)
Drawn in 1944
Provenance
Mme Pierre Chareau, Paris.
Ruth Schaffner, Los Angeles.
George Tubert, New York.
B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Ruth Schaffner, Los Angeles.
George Tubert, New York.
B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
M.A. Caws, Robert Motherwell: with Pen and Brush, London, 2003, p. 47 (illustrated, pl. 33).
Exhibited
New York, Art of This Century, Robert Motherwell: Paintings, Papier Collés, Drawings, October-November 1944.
Los Angeles, Otis Art Institute, Robert Motherwell in California Collections, November 1974-December 1975 (illustrated).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Graphic Modernism, Selections from the Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht Collection, November 2003-January 2004, p. 166, no. 133 (illustrated in color).
Los Angeles, Otis Art Institute, Robert Motherwell in California Collections, November 1974-December 1975 (illustrated).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Graphic Modernism, Selections from the Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht Collection, November 2003-January 2004, p. 166, no. 133 (illustrated in color).